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Ferroelectricity: 100 years on

10 Nov 2020
Taken from the November 2020 issue of Physics World.

When a PhD student called Joseph Valasek discovered ferroelectricity exactly 100 years ago, few people realized the enormous impact it would have on science and technology. Amar S Bhalla and Avadh Saxena pick their favourite applications of this fundamental physics phenomenon

Salt crystal
Century celebration Light shining through the faces of a crystal of Rochelle salt – the material in which ferroelectricity was discovered in 1920. (Courtesy: iStock/Grover Schraye)
Great discoveries are sometimes made without anyone realizing quite how important they will be. C V

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Amar S Bhalla is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Texas at San Antonio, US, e-mail amar.bhalla@utsa.edu and Avadh Saxena is a group leader in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, US, e-mail avadh@lanl.gov
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